George Enescu (1881 - 1955)
Part Four
Thursday 5 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Thursday 12 May 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
4/5. A Romanian Music: The interwar years were dominated for Enescu by the completion in 1931 of the first major Romanian opera, Oedipe, which he had laboured over for more than two decades. During a period which was to prove difficult in his personal life he also wrote several pieces with a national style in mind, by attempting to reflect in music the soul of his people, rather than quoting folk tunes. With Donald Macleod.
Playlist
Sonata no. 3 [extract: mvt II]
Anne Solomon (violin)/ Dominic Saunders (piano)
Olympia OCD 690 tr 3
Oedipe [extract: end of Act 2]
Marjana Lipovsek (Sphinx)/ Jose van Dam (Oedipus)/ Chorus - Orfeon Donostiarra/ Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/ Lawrence Foster (cond)
EMI CD1 tr 19-21
3rd Orchestral Suite 'Villageoise'
Romanian National Radio Orchestra/ Horia Andreescu (cond)
Olympia OCD 495 tr 7-11
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